<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every country in the region. Social distancing, school and office closures, and complete lockdowns have disrupted the lives of billions. Access to the Internet has enabled many to ...

The pilot study on strategies to mitigate the effects of physical isolation on remote island communities. Indonesia was chosen as the location for the pilot study. Adequate transport improves living standards through access ...

During the last decade information and communications technology (ICT) has experienced unprecedented growth, which has facilitated greater flow of resources, including monetary capital, physical goods, human resources, ...

<p>In response to the tsunami which hit eight Asian countries on 26 December 2004, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(ESCAP) initiated a project to increase understanding of how this ...

This publication examines the social protection systems and the crisis-designed social safety nets in China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, and Thailand. An overview of the Asian economic crisis and its ...

<p>This study was prepared by the ESCAP/UNDP project Economic Restructuring and International Trade in the Mineral Commodities Sector (RAS/089/027) by a team from the Centre for Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy ofthe ...

ICT tools assist the stakeholders to receive, communicate, disseminate, store and process information and also assist them in project planning and monitoring processes. As no single ICT tool or tool set is adequate for all ...

The ESCAP secretariat undertook a review of five case studies in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines where interventions in the transport sector contributed substantially or played a catalytic role ...

This publication is the fifth in the new series of the ESCAP secretariat’s publications on mineral concentrations and hydrocarbon accumulations in the ESCAP region. The objective of this series is to make an inventory and ...

The "Disability at a Glance: a Profile of 28 Countries and Areas in Asia and the Pacific" is a compilation of disability-related data and information from the following 28 countries and areas: five from the East and ...